Meaning of HUMORIST
| Pronunciation: | | 'hyoomurist
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| | Definition: | | [n] someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way |
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| | Synonyms: | | humourist |
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| | See Also: | | Benchley, card, Clemens, Don Marquis, Donald Robert Perry Marquis, Edward Lear, entertainer, Henry Wheeler Shaw, ironist, James Grover Thurber, James Thurber, Josh Billings, lampooner, Lardner, Leacock, Lear, Mark Twain, Marquis, parodist, punster, ridiculer, Ring Lardner, Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Robert Benchley, Robert Charles Benchley, Rogers, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, satirist, Shaw, Stephen Butler Leacock, Stephen Leacock, Thurber, wag, Will Rogers, William Penn Adair Rogers, wit | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Hu"mor*ist\, n. [Cf. F. humoriste.]
1. (Med.) One who attributes diseases of the state of the
humors.
2. One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character,
which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.
He [Roger de Coverley] . . . was a great humorist in
all parts of his life. --Addison.
3. One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has
a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll.
The reputation of wits and humorists. --Addison.
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| | Related Terms: | | advertising writer, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, banana, banterer, belletrist, bibliographer, buffoon, burlesquer, card, caricaturist, clown, coauthor, collaborator, columnist, comedian, comic, compiler, composer, copywriter, creative writer, critic, cutup, dance critic, diarist, drama critic, dramatist, droll, encyclopedist, epigrammatist, essayist, free lance, free-lance writer, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, ghost, ghostwriter, inditer, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, kidder, lampooner, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, madcap, magazine writer, man of letters, merry-andrew, monographer, music critic, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, pamphleteer, parodist, penwoman, poet, prankster, prose writer, punner, punster, quipster, reparteeist, reviewer, satirist, scenario writer, scenarist, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, storyteller, technical writer, wag, wagwit, wisecracker, wit, witling, word painter, wordsmith, writer, zany |
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